It’s Duke-Carolina week, so let’s start with common opponents. We’ll be hearing lots of statistics and metrics this week as the Tar Heels and Blue Devils tangle in the first of two contests this Wednesday night in Durham. Nine common opponents to date is one of them, and the results are fairly surprising. Duke has […]

Ol’ Roy needed to channel his inner Belichick. As Carolina moves on to a winnable visit to Wake Forest Saturday, bloggers were still analyzing how usually composed Virginia coach Tony Bennett reacted to his players turning the ball over too much in falling behind at UNC by seven points. He said he felt the veins […]

The recent mock NBA draft guts the ACC’s top teams. ESPN’s latest guess as to which college players will go and where if the NBA draft was held today is especially impactful on the ACC’s three best teams, especially Duke. The Blue Devils’ four freshmen are all one-and-done first rounders, three in the first four picks. […]

The face of a champion and the face of a choker. You can watch basketball for the rest of your God-given life and likely never see anything close to what happened in the Duke-Louisville game Tuesday night. The greatest second-half comeback in Mike Krzyzewski’s Hall of Fame career could never have happened without the Cardinals […]

At the end of a tough game, Carolina was just too sick and tired. Perusing the box score, it is hard to believe that the Tar Heels actually led fourth-ranked Virginia by seven points with less than eight minutes to play. The Cavaliers shot 53 percent from the floor and 55 percent from the 3-point […]

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Uniforms were different 50 years ago, but not much else vs. State. In the walloping win over the Wolfpack, Carolina wore its throwback unies from the pre-Alexander Julian argyle days. But going back a half-century, a lot is still the same in the Carolina-State rivalry. The 1969 Tar Heels, ranked No. 2 in the nation, had […]

The Saints should have been in the Super Bowl for other reasons. Besides the infamous non-call in the NFC championship game that may have cost New Orleans a shot at playing on Super Sunday, the big game suffered in more ways than one. TV ratings, among the lowest in years for the Patriots’ defensive-minded win […]

Funny in basketball how what goes around comes around, isn’t it? Carolina avenged a home whipping to Louisville Saturday by being a combination of Muhammad Ali, who was honored in his home town and at the Yum Center. The Tar Heels floated like a butterfly at times but stung like a bee more often in […]

The Patriots could be 8-0 or 0-8 in the Tom Brady Super Bowl era. There have been polarizing sports team in history: the old Boston Celtics and New York Yankees, the Dallas Cowboys and Duke Blue Devils. But nothing like the New England Patriots. However, while going to three straight Super Bowls — four of […]